Ivar Altram Ab Volume the First · MMXXVI

Volume the First

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A Concern in Several Parts, Concerning Matters Not Yet Announced, with a Plan of the Premises, a Short Index, and Regrets

On the back cover

The drawing is finished; the machine is not yet needed.

Patient work, carried out below the surface and well ahead of the schedule everyone else is keeping.

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Ivar Altram AbContents

Contents, such as they areFive Entries and a Withheld One

  1. Machina1

    Instruments and mechanisms. Patient engineering, made to outlast the hands that made it.

  2. Mare17

    Things that move beneath the surface: vessels, routes, and the long logic of water.

  3. Aether38

    Signals, light, and the ways a message can cross a distance without being seen.

  4. Terra52

    Ground and stone, and what lies beneath them. Surveyed with care.

  5. Sub sigillo[withheld]

    Under seal. Contents not yet disclosed. Patience is part of the method.

Ivar Altram AbForeword

A foreword, of sortsThe drawings stay in the notebook

Ivar Altram Ab attends to the long hours between the sketch and the first turning of the wheel, when the work is quiet and the instruments are being made ready.

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Those within know the instruments by touch. The lamp is lit at the same hour each evening, and the door is not opened for the curious.

Ivar Altram AbPlate I

Plate IPlan of the Premises

A floor plan with an instrument room, a lamp room, a floor with a trapdoor and a wheel, and a closed door. Five features are lettered A to E. Not to scale, or to any other A B C beneath D E The instruments The lamp room The floor ?   ?   ?
Plate I. The premises, as remembered. The door is drawn closed.
  • AThe instruments, known by touch.
  • BThe lamp, lit at the same hour each evening.
  • CThe wheel, not yet turned.
  • DThe floor, and what moves beneath it.
  • EThe door, not opened for the curious.
Ivar Altram AbCorrespondence

LettersBy letter and by appointment

Ivar Altram Ab does not keep a reception. Those with a reason to write will find the way, and will be answered in due time.

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